Which browser for an iMac G3 on OS9?

[ths247]

Hi, I have an old (2000 ish) iMac G3 which my good lady used to use on a dialup basis.

I fired it up, the machine runs fine.

I plugged in an Ethernet cable, my router sees the iMac and gives it an IP address from its DHCP pool

I can ping the iMac from other devices on my home network, so far so good....

Internet Explorer 4.5(!) is installed on the iMac but I cannot browse and sites using that.

I have tried various settings, proxies and everything else i can think of, including enabling port forwarding on my router.

The best result I have had is either a spinner or a 400 Bad Page error.

As you may have gathered, I am not knowledgeable on iMacs by any means, I have a feeling I am trying to do something which might not be possible.

I naively thought that I should be able to at least browse the internet with what is an old machine and relatively outdated, so my question is can I actually do this?

Any helpful suggestions would be most welcome.

Many thanks in advance.....

 

[r6mile]

Classila browser is the best you are going to get on OS9.

 

[ths247]

Thanks for the response, I'll check that out.

Do you think the browser is the cause of my internet access difficulties, or do I have other issues like DNS access or whatever?

 

[Fishrrman]

I'm thinking that a browser that old (that is, not having had "updates") simply won't work any more. I'd try Classila as r6 suggests above.

 

[EugW]

I would recommend retiring that machine and buying a bargain basement used machine. Such a bargain basement machine will still be infinitely more pleasant to use to surf the net than any G3.

 

[ths247]

Great, thanks. Any tips on how to install it? I have downloaded it on my Windows PC but I am unfamiliar with how to get it onto the iMac....

 

[ths247]

I would recommend retiring that machine and buying a bargain based used machine. Such a bargain basement machine will still be infinitely more pleasant to use to surf the net than any G3.

Hi, would you have a suggestion as to which machine to look for? I am completely unfamiliar with Macs. Thanks!

 

[mdgm]

Great, thanks. Any tips on how to install it? I have downloaded it on my Windows PC but I am unfamiliar with how to get it onto the iMac....

Maybe try copying it onto a really old USB stick you have that's formatted with FAT32.

Or perhaps transfer it across your network (this is a bit more involved to figure out how to do it). You could use SMB1/CIFS, however on Windows 10 that's disabled by default now so you'd need to re-enable that.